Reviews

I absolutely LOVED this drama. Which is funny because the only reason I watched this drama was because of Netflix. I actually saw the first episode a year ago and I don't know what I was thinking but I ended up dropping it; I'm so happy I gave it another shot.

The main protagonists had great chemistry with one another. When they switched bodies, both of them played their role very well and with such humor. I kept laughing throughout the drama. I think this alongside Lie To Me where I laughed so much.

The tracksuits were the star of this drama; I actually ended up really liking the purple one for me, lol.

Unlike other dramas, this one didn't drag with the couples indecisiveness. It was refreshing to see the guy lust over the girl.

In all honestly, I skipped over the scenes of the second couple, the antagonist later in the episodes. Their scenes were "meh."

Beautiful drama, def. recommend.

Leia Mais

The first half of the drama is, without any doubts, interesting, funny, and had everything to be an excellent drama.The first episode was awesome and I couldn't stop watching it until around episode 7. It's had become an addiction to me. Until here.

However, around ep 8, the drama starts to drag, consequently, becomes boring. The plot was being dragged a lot, and nothing seemed to have an "answer". The feeling you get after finish watching an episode is like you've watched nothing relevant.

The last half of the drama was just confusing, dragged, and boring. We had no answers. We just had to swallow an end we didn't get at all.

I'm giving it a 6. Just because I really enjoyed the first half of the drama and the OST is really good.

Leia Mais

I loved this drama, the acting was amazing, the storyline was interesting, the romance was cute, and most of the time it kept me laughing.
But if they were to remake it(which is so sad.. they should have just done it in the first place if you ask me) they would definitely need better planning.
Some of the last episodes were mostly wasted because they went in circles over the same problem. Realistic, because it takes us awhile to figure out how to solve our problems, but crappy because you don't want to watch your favorite character smash their head against a brick wall over and over again in multiple episodes.
This ridiculous circling was easy for me to ignore at first, but even I lost my patience with it.
What's worse, it didn't leave enough time in the last episode to give the drama the ending it deserved. Don't get me wrong; I've seen worse, but it was lacking.
Another thing that really bothered me throughout the whole drama was that Shin Won-Ho, the guy who plays Kang Kyung Joon, hardly had a part at all. You think being one of the three main characters would give him some space to act, but no. He spent almost all 16 episodes in a coma. Very frustrating to have such a cute guy not have his turn.
Then again, if he did, I'd probably cry because I wanted to see Gong Yoo more ;) hehe

Leia Mais

There's just one word for this drama: Awesome.
I really didn't want to watch it because the summary sounded boring and the picture wasn't that great, either - But I'm so glad I did!
Everything about this was perfect. You will know after having watched the first episode. Each of the episodes could just as well be a movie, they are amazing.
The acting was incredible, especially the dogs'. Anyway, the dogs were the stars of this drama. I have no idea how they got them to act like they did, but it was amazing. Okay, sometimes it was a little too human to be realistic, but to be honest that's what people want to see..
The scenery looked real, too. It was very interesting to see everything happening without all the new technology.
The music was as dramatic as the drama itself, the opening and ending song was wonderful and fitting.
I think I never cried as much because of a drama as I did while I watched this one. Not even 1 Litre of Tears.
Even if you don't want to, at least watch the first episode! It will change your mind.

Leia Mais

When I first learned of Big, I was excited for Gong Yoo's return to dramaland. After watching Big, I feel bad for him. He's carried this show to the end with little to no help from either main characters or story.

The story started in an interesting way, but the Hong Sisters' cliched mommy drama and flummoxing machinations ruined it's basic plot of the body switch. What actually began as a decent story with a few flaws ended up being a bad story with very few lights at the end.

To be honest, other than Gong Yoo's Yeon Jae/ Kyung Joon, none of the main characters made me too happy. I liked Suzy as Mari for awhile, until that character got so out of hand that my mind hurt. The supporting characters were much better--I especially liked Choong-shik. Shin Won Ho didn't really get an opportunity to shine at all either.

I will probably never rewatch Big, unless I'm desperate to watch Gong Yoo. All I get from the show is a headache, when rom-coms are supposed to make you forget why your head hurts.

Leia Mais

Love Story in Harvard I can say is no masterpiece especially in my eyes but I will say that I am glad I found the drama. Love Story in Harvard is one of the many dramas which starts off great but sadly goes down hill in the last few episodes.

The drama started off so well when they were in America where there was no resentment and all we had was the love triangle starting and a pair of young adults falling deeply in love. The chemistry between the main two leads was probably the best thing about the drama to be honest and even though having amazing chemistry is needed it can't hide the little flaws which can bring down a once great drama.

When I think back to when I watched Love Story in Harvard I remember being happy at first and being thankful I gave the drama a chance because at first I was bit hesitant. In the past before I started Love Story in Harvard I didn't really like Kim Tae Hee because of her character Han Yoo-ri from Stairway to Heaven. Back then if a character upset me I would automatically dislike the actor/actress(not anymore). The second I saw Kim Tae Hee playing in this drama all of that hatred disappeared and I started to really like the actress enough to watch other of her works.

When the drama shifted from America to Korea with the many years later gap I felt I lost a bit of love for the show and even though the first few episodes in the next installment was exciting because of the resentment and falling in love again. When all was said and done the drama went down another path and I honestly found myself watching the drama very slowly and pausing constantly. In the end I made it to the end and I have to say I don't think I will ever re-watch this drama. It was enjoyable while it lasted. I would suggest spending those 16 hours of your life on another drama.

Leia Mais

I Love Lee Tae Ri is part of the recent trend of dramas about time-travel/people/body switch. The story is ok. It is pretty typical and there aren’t any unexpected moments. I thought for sure there would be something special at the end, but there isn’t.

Park Ye Jin plays Lee Tae Ri and she does an ok job. I just didn’t connect with her. I’m not sure if it was her acting or her character, but there is just something missing. Kim Kibum who plays Eun Dong/ Min Soo caught my attention from the beginning(I gave the acting a higher score because of him). I really enjoyed his acting as well as his character. It would be tuff to go from 14 to 25 in a day, but even with his immature behavior he survives it well. The extras also did a fine job and Jang Seo Won who plays Min Gook was excellent!!!

This drama began great, and there were a few episodes toward the end that were enjoyable. It just lacked something and I really think it was the chemistry between the leads. I don’t think it was the age difference. I have seen dramas with age difference where I thought that the couple was perfect for each other. In this drama I really didn’t care if they were together or not.

Anyway, it isn’t a horrible drama. The music is ok. The acting is ok. The story is ok.
I can’t really recommend it, but try it. You might like it!!!

Leia Mais

Wao!
What a great story,the past meets with the present,
What i like the most in this Drama is the unpredictable part of the story, it is contrast to many dramas which can be predicted easly. and also i like the combination of fantacyside and realityside inside the story,the combination of pasttime and the present time, for me they matched parfectly to the extent that i wish that these things can hapen in a real world.

The main characters were great, they deriverd the story parfectly, i saw the chemistry between them the romance btn them was SUPER!.

I had fun watching this drama, it made me laugh alot,For me,Its the most fantacy romantic drama ever, i enjoyed watching it and it was worth watching it.

Leia Mais

Evrything was perfect seriously esp story make me fall in love with it! Plus lead actors was my favorite K actor-actress Lee Min Jung & Gong Yoo so ? totaly needed to watch this when ? first saw :D then while watching story become confusing espicialy in the last 2 ep! I always loved Hong sisters dramas but they realy have some serious problems about endings :'(
THE ONLY REASONS THAT I dont regret ? watched this drama while its airing and downloaded all eps in hq IS Lee Min Jung's and Gong Yoo's act! they are so perfect :'o showing all those emotions that easly and have so much chemistry ? just can 'woow' *-* wish to see them together in new dramas

Leia Mais

As much as I hate to say this, I'm really disappointed with this KBS BIG. It's a really cute/nice drama, yes. It started off really strong (which most kdramas are naturally good at imo), but as it progressed I lost more and more interest in it. For several reasons actually.

One, they don't provide enough background for the main cast of the drama. Instead they provide way too many fillers with useless information and subplots such as the romance between Teacher Ae Kyung and Na Hyo Sang's little romance. Or even more unbelievably pointless, Teacher Kim Young Ok and Kang Kyung Joon's Uncle's relationship to Gil Da Ran's parents. While their comedic relief is undeniable the time used up on these people could be used to focus on more interesting and informative things like Kyung Joon and Mari's past. Or Yoon Jae's dad and Kyung Joon's mom. Or more importantly Yoon Jae himself, cause honestly after the guy got knocked the hell out we really lost the chance to see any sort of character development. What little flashbacks that were provided simply werent enough because they centered around Gil Da Ran and Yoon Jae as a couple, not him as an individual.

Furthermore, how did Ma Ri and Kyung Joon become acquainted!? How'd she grow to be so in love (obsessed) with him? Besides a few flashback clips of him patting her on the head and her asking him to stop his mom from going to her dad, I really don't know much about this pairing's past.

Also, another thing the writers could have shed a little more light on is the truth behind Yoon Jae and Lee Se Young's relationship. Was it really one sided? And if it was why the fuck would he take and KEEP the key she gave to him if he wasn't wavering in the least bit? Is he really as pure in thought and mind as the writers have tried to convince us after discovering Lee Se Young's lies.

Speaking of the devil, Lee Se Young was a total waste of a potential character if you ask me. I mean really here you have two female antagonist, Seyoung and Mari, yet you give more screen time to the one who is mostly just an annoying fly on the wall with weak purpose. Other than being an manipulative and obnoxious little liar exactly what is she there for lmfao. It'd be something different if Kyung Joon actually had feelings for Mari which would create more tension and drama with a real love triangle. Or maybe a love square? I'm not sure? Can you really count Yoon Jae anymore since he's pretty much had no say in the matter for the last uh...15 episodes.

But anyway, we can't really speak for Mari and Kyung Joon's past because like many other important things it's vague as fuck.

As far as the casting goes, I think it's safe to say that Gong Yoo (((oppa))) saved this drama. As always his performance reeled me in like a fish. I swear when he cries angels grab the tissues and start dabbing away at their tears, lbr. Every emotion is so believable.

LEE MIN JUNG. Love the girl i really do but i hate the character lmfao. She just seems so useless half the time? And only plays a game of tug of war with her feelings. Like really I can just picture her sitting on a park bench, plucking the petals off a sunflower and saying "I love him....I love him not...I love him...I love him not". Cause that's all her character did this entire time besides act like she older than Kyung Joon by 15 years and scold him restlessly even though he has more courage, patience, consistency, commitment, and sincerity in the tip of his finger than she possess in her entire fucking body. Honestly, she just proved to me that an age gap has little to do with maturity and readiness in terms of love. BUT I'M SORRY, i can't blame Lee Min Jung for having an "eh" role. I mean she didn't write it ykwim? Lmfao i really like her acting so I won't continue to complain.

OK. BUT LASTLY.

WHAT'S EVEN MORE UPSETTING

IS HOW THIS DRAMA DRAGS ON AND ON AND ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN AND ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN and ONNNNNNNNNNNNNN AND ONNNNNNNNN-....see what i did there. Yea.

The writers spend most of the time making the main cast look like indecisive dumbasses instead of worrying about how to settle the "after come".

Here's a timeline of what they do:

exposition --> rising action --> CLIMAX? --> K nope rising action --> rising action --> CLIMAX NOW?..anybody? idk --> falling action? --> nope havent reached the climax i don't think --> a bunch of plot twists --> ok wtf are we even doing anymore --> finale resolution (lol hi)

Lmfao. Kyung Joon hasn't returned to his own body and there's only 1 episode left to take care of that. Naturally, this will lead me to believe that everything will be jam packed into the finale. I'm praying that it won't be sloppy. I'm praying that it won't be a cop out ending in which they pull a "5 years later" type of thing. There's literally so many things to cover after they switch bodies back that it just leaves...to many doubts and little hopes for a clean end.

If you ask me they could have spent less screen time on useless things like standing around crying while dramatic OST music plays in the background; or, knixed one of the supporting cast subplots on creating more time for the finale, in which all questions can be answered. All loose knots can be tied.

Anyway, overall this drama just seems to be yet another predictable and shallow romance that can be used to pass time. It gets kudos for some of the exceptional pieces of eye candy though.

But again, Gong Yoo was terrific and gives a heart trembling performance as always! So, if you're a huge fan of him you can give this drama a shot.

(might edit after watching the last ep)

Leia Mais

What could have been a perfect 10/10 drama or at least 9.5/10 is dragged down to a 7.5/10 due to a single plot being dragged to a point beyond annoying. How saddening. If the drama as a whole didnt rely on this single plot line so heavily to be its driving point it wouln't have made such a negative difference to the drama as a whole. The unfortunate news is that it does rely heavily on this dragged out plot line and it ends up feeling very much like a cheap attempt to get viewers hooked in order to have more viewers during its broadcast (this is a very important factor to everyone in a production especially in Korea). Smh. Music, acting, action scenes, directing, production are all top notch but dragging out a major plot to an exaggerating point I never have known before, ruins a lot this drama has to offer. That being said, I think I can still recommend this drama seeing the intelligent effort that was put into it and that it at least gets a 7.5/10 from me.

Leia Mais

This is a Drama special, so the plot needed to be simple but still interesting, and this drama did that greatly.
I gave this drama special a high score because personally this kind of drama i really enjoy, lighthearted, sweet, and meaningful, something that really make makes you go awww~ and fall in love.

Story - the drama wasn't slow passed or going too fast, its a drama you want to watch that will get your mood up. i wouldn't say its the most original plot but its loveable. sometimes when watching a movie or drama i feel some scenes or dialogue is unnecessary, but this was one of those that had every second used up perfectly, you don't want to miss anything.

Acting/cast - i love the characters, even if they weren't the main character, they played an important part that made the drama special that more special. i love the actors for the two main characters, they played it perfectly (totally love KyungHo shi) and the little girl was absolutely adorable.

Music - From what i remember there was only one song, Feist - La Même Histoire. its a beautiful song have no clue what the lyrics are but just listening to it gives off a lighthearted feeling like the drama. it plays near the end and fits the scene so perfectly.

Rewatch - i gave this a 8 because i never rewatch stuff because i already know whats gonna happen but this drama special is something i wouldn't mind watching again when i need a little cheering up or maybe on a lazy day.

if i was to speak artistically, i would say when i think of this drama special, i imagine a beautiful sunny day with a light breeze and a lite rain (spitting) and always see that scene in the drama where there a bridge and the path below is surrounded by a wall and its all covered in bright green leaves. ( not very good at explaining things but you'll know what i mean when you see it)

Leia Mais